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Americans hoard food as industry seeks regs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006044/posts
The last great TP shortages had Asian’s carrying boxes onto international flights and all the stores shelve were empty.
It follows that the rising prices was going to cause the Asian’s and Latino’s to stock up..since they have experienced these situations before. Give it a couple weeks and there won’t be a bag of rice to find...